Sharp County record., 1887-09-01

SHARP COUNTY RECORD
B.e. HENDERSON, Proprietor.
EVENING SHADE. ARKANSAS
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
THE Ameer Of Afghanistan is reporteo
TO be diving from the effect OF the ainpu'a
tion of one of his feet.
TIE marriage of the Emperor OF emma
has been postponed for two years. O"lhs
to the illness of the youthful monarch ana
the prevailing monetary stringency'
THE rife factories at Spandau, Erfult
and Dantzic are rapidly discharging work
men, having almost completed the orders
for repeating rifles for the German army
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THE news of the serious and perhaps
fatal illness of the Ameer Of Atghanlstan
has aroused Russian and English cupldlty
once more in connection with that coun'
try.
MRs. HENRY WARD BEECHER has mad'
arrangements to receive Rev. DR.. Parker
of London, on his arrival in New York OF
the Umbria, which will probably be on the
9th.
YANK MeCARTY, a prominent citizen ano
ex.sheriff of Hooking County, o., died OF
the morning of the 22d som the effectS o.
a dose of morphine taken with supposed
suicidal intent.
John ANDERSEN, a bartender in Billy
Thompson's restaurant at Gloucester, n
J.. received word on the night of the 20
that by the death of his mother in Copen
hagen he is heir to 100000.
AFLoAr1NG exhibition of Spanish prod
ucts will shortly leave Valencia for Soutl
America and will visit all the principa
South American seaports. The object 1
to open up new markets for Spanish goods
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the well-know'
war correspondent, who was to lecture
this country next fall, has cabled his mar
ager, ]. B. Pond, that his health is wrecke
and that all of his engagements must b
Cancelled.
THE sale of one thousand-mile tickets
suspended when the Interstate Commerc
act went into force, has been resumed D
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Th
rate is twenty dollars, the same prevallln
before the suspension.
GENERAL JOHN c. BLACK, Commissions
of Pensions, is reported to be quite ill wit
infammatory rheumatism at the resldenc
of Hon. Stilson Hutchins, at Weir, N. L
Heis there as the guest of the New HamI
shire veterans. Three physicians hay
been in attendance.
NED HANLAN, the oarsman, has gone t
San Francisco en- route to Australia, 7
row his match with Beach, for which 500
a side has been posted. He accounts TO
the phenomenal time in his recent rae
with Teemer by the fact that the cours
was six hundred feet short.
JUDGE KUMLER, of the Cincinnati Cour
of Common Pleas, has granted manda
mus on the application of the Union Labol
party, directing the Board of Elections t.
hereafter recognize the Union Labor party
in making appointments of clerks, regis
trars and judges of election.
A GENERAL court martial has been ap
pointed to meet at Washington Barracks
D. c., on Monday, August %, to try
Second Lieutenant J. W. Weber for neg
lect of duty and disobedience Of orders il
the work of the signal service, upor
charges preferred by General Greedy.
THE close of the week ended the 2Ott
found the Detroits still at the head of the
League base ball-ball series, Chicago one
game behind them and the Bostons
dropped to fifth place. The st. Louis
Browns keep their lead in the Association
with Louisville second, sixteen games be-
hind.
The Secretary of the Navy is about tc
sell the old sloop of war Cyane, now lying
at the Mare Island Navy Yard, San Fran,
cisco. The Cayne is the last ship remain
ing of the men-of-war captured from the
English in 1S12-15, and was taken by the
Constitution, commanded by Captain
Chas. Stewart.
DAVID OKEY, of the Mercantile Marine
division of the Treasury Department, who
has been appointed by Secretary Fair
child to examine into the methods of the
Board of immigration of the port of New
York, presented his credentials to Collect
Or Magone on the 22d and had a Ions
consultation with him.
THE preparations for the celebration Of
the Pope's jubilee will begin at Rome il
September on an extensive scale. Among
the features of the celebration will be al
exhibition, which will be formally opened
in the presence of the Pope, Dom Pedro
H., Emperor of Brazil, and the ENJOYS o
all the sovereigns of Europe.
THE quarrymen employed at the lime
stone quarries along the river east o
Youngstown o., to the number of over 2,OOC
struck on the 24th for an increase OF tw
cents per ton and semi-monthly paymen